Drs. Martin and Sandra Fackler - George A. Smathers Libraries ...

For Friends of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Spring 2012
Dr. Martin (top)
and Dr. Sandra
Fackler signing
the endowment
agreement.
What’s Inside
Left to right: Dr. David Guzick, sr. vice president for health affairs, president,
UF&Shands Health System; Cecilia Botero, associate dean and director of the Health
Science Center Libraries, Dr. Martin Fackler and Dr. Sandra Fackler.
Drs. Martin and Sandra Fackler
establish the Director of the Health Science
Center Libraries Endowment
Drs. Martin and Sandra Fackler have established the Drs. Martin and Sandra
Fackler Director of Health Science Center Libraries Endowment at the University
of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. The Health Science Center Libraries are
the first health science or medical library in Florida to have an endowed faculty
position. This is also the first endowed faculty position in the University of Florida
library system.
Dr. Martin Fackler is a retired Colonel with the US Army’s Medical Corps. He was a
battlefield surgeon and head of the Wound Ballistics Laboratory for the U.S. Army’s
Medical Training Center, Letterman Institute. He is credited with a number of
contributions to the field of terminal ballistics. He has said that the Health Science
Center Library was a key factor in his decision to move to Gainesville.
Dr. Sandra Fackler is retired from the University of Florida Foundation, Inc.
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Dr. Robert L. Egolf
honored at exhibit
reception; student
scholarship winner
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Exhibits; Capital
campaign
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Collaboration and
the Panama Canal
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Authors@UF; ReadFest;
Mary Jean Hanson
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Kreamer comics
collection; Dean Russell
quoted in NY Times
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NEH St. Augustine
grant awarded
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Dean’s message
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Dr. Robert L. Egolf
honored at exhibit reception
by Barbara Hood
Director of Communications
Dr. Robert L. Egolf was the guest of honor at a reception
on January 8, 2012 in the Smathers Library Grand Reading
Room for the exhibition A cataloger’s look at the Dr. Robert
L. Egolf Collection. The exhibit in the Smathers gallery ran
from November 11, 2011 through January 13, 2012.
Dr. Egolf donated his collection of children’s literature from
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children’s Literature in the Depaartment of
Special and Area Studies Collections. He wanted a permanent
home for his books and thought that the Baldwin Library
would be an excellent caretaker of the more than 2,800 volumes.
Dr. Robert L. Egolf at the reception with friends.
Rita Smith, then curator of the Baldwin Library said, “The
new collection moves the Baldwin Library towards a higher
level of excellence as a research archive. It is a gift that is
much appreciated and a collection that offers material for
productive exploration by scholars for years to come.”
In March 2011, the cataloging and metadata department
took on the assignment of completing the records of approximately
1,000 titles and cataloging the remaining titles.
By June 30 ten catalogers, with the assistance of the Special
Collections staff, retrieved, evaluated, processed, cataloged
and shelved over 2,800 books.
Library faculty and staff who created the display cases for
the exhibit include from left to right: Samantha Harmon,
Krissy Wilson, Hank Young, Jay Albritton, Jane Anne Carey
and Nicola Hill. Not pictured is Susan Constantineau.
As a result of this work, the public has access to a complete
description of each book: who wrote and illustrated it, who
printed and published it, who engraved and typed it, when
and where it was made and what it is about.
The exhibit brochure is accessible at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/
AA00007502/00002
James and Leslie Rutherford library
student assistant scholarship winner
Laura Browning, a first year graduate student in the masters
of elementary education program, was awarded the spring
2012 James and Leslie Rutherford Library Student Assistant
Scholarship. Browning works at the Library West circulation
desk. An Orlando native, Browning will begin Florida State
University’s School of Library & Information Studies this
summer and plans to follow the school media track. She says
she is very excited about becoming a librarian.
The $500 scholarship is awarded during the fall and spring
semesters to a student assistant employed by the Smathers
Libraries.
Laura Browning with Associate Dean for Scholarly
Resources and Research Services Diane Bruxvoort
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EXHIBITS
by Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler
Exhibits Coordinator
The George A. Smathers Libraries
exhibition program shares, interprets
and promotes the collections as well
as reflects the history and scholarship
of the University of Florida. Included
are in-house and traveling exhibitions
in nine library buildings. Additionally,
permanent online exhibitions are
created as companions to many of the
physical displays or as stand-alones.
See them at http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu.
Jewish Jacksonville
Smathers Library Gallery
Through June 15, 2012
http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/
jewishjacksonville
Prior to the 1930s, the Jewish
community of Jacksonville
represented Florida’s largest and most
significant Jewish population. Yet,
in spite of its former preeminence,
the story of this community is still
little known. Jewish Jacksonville
tells a portion of that history through
materials from the late 19th to the end
of the 20th century. Elements of Jewish
family, communal and institutional
life, as well as some of the ways in
which Jewish people have impacted
the development and structure of
Jacksonville itself are highlighted.
Curated by Rebecca Jefferson.
Korean Art: Collecting Treasures
http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/
harnkoreanart/
The Smathers Libraries partnered
with the Samuel P. Harn Museum
of Art to create this permanent
online companion to the temporary
exhibition of the same name on
view at the museum. The exhibition
highlights the Korean donations of
General James A. Van Fleet, including
rare blue-and-white porcelains
and hanging scroll masterpieces.
Multimedia content is also included
from a rare 17th-century Korean
gilt wood bodhisattva which has
undergone medical imaging, high
resolution digitization in the round
at the UF Digital Library Center, and
both art and paper conservation.
The online exhibition was funded
in part by the UF Center for the
Humanities and the Public Sphere
Library Enhancement Grant and
was curated by Jason Steuber,
Allysa Browne Peyton and Lourdes
Santamaría-Wheeler.
Select Upcoming Exhibitions
Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance
Science, Magic and Medicine
August 26 - October 6, 2012
Health Science Center Libraries
Artbound 2012
September 10 – November 2, 2012
Smathers Library Gallery
Capital campaign comes to a close in September
On behalf of the University of Florida’s
50,000 students and 13,000 faculty
and staff members, I am inviting you
to make a contribution to the UF
Libraries’ capital campaign. To date
the libraries have raised $18 million
of the $20 million goal that will end
on September 30, 2012. Collectively,
with your enthusiasm for supporting
the libraries as an integral and
indispensable campus asset, we will
achieve our projected goal.
Unlike other campus units, each of
which has identified its own campaign
goal, the libraries lack one important
group of supporters – alumni. In a
perfect world, all UF alumni who
contribute to the future of the Gator
Nation also would remember to
support the libraries. This would be
the libraries’ dream!
That’s why your presence among our
donors is especially appreciated. It
demonstrates your understanding
of the significant role played by the
libraries for providing access to electronic
databases, books, maps, digital
and rare collections, computers,
laptops, printers, furniture and collabor ­
a tion spaces. What would UF faculty
and students do without the financial
contributions of supporters like you?
Given your previous interest in the
libraries, I’m asking you to consider
joining our efforts to raise the
remaining $2 million and complete
the libraries’ capital campaign goal.
If you would like to make a difference
at the University of Florida Libraries
now or beyond your life time, there are
many ways you can contribute:
• You can make an outright gift at this
time, no matter how small
• You can pledge any amount now with
fulfillment by September 30, 2012
• You may want to create a charitable
annuity to benefit both you/your family,
and the UF Libraries in the future
• You can create a library fund with as
little as $2,000
• You may prefer to add to an existing
endowment or create a new one honoring
your family or a loved one’s memory
• You may consider including the UF
Libraries in your will as a bequest
• There are many naming opportunities
at the nine library facilities
Invest in the libraries and help us do
great things! Your gift to the UF
Libraries directly benefits UF students,
faculty and scholars by helping the
libraries acquire, organize and make
accessible the tremendous amount of
information resources, in print and
electronic form, that are available today.
If you have any questions regarding
these giving opportunities, please do
not hesitate to contact the Development
Office at the UF Libraries. I will be
traveling the next couple of months
meeting with library donors to the
Florida Tomorrow Campaign. If
we could find a time to meet I can
share with you the priorities and
accomplishments of UF Libraries. I
would love to meet with you in person,
if given the opportunity.
Respectfully,
Samuel T. Huang
Associate Dean for Development
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Collaboration in the Canal:
The University of Florida and the Panama Canal Museum
by Rachel Schipper
Associate Dean for Technology
and Support Services
The George A. Smathers Libraries, in
collaboration with the Florida Museum
of Natural History and the Harn
Museum of Art, and with the support of
the Center for Latin American Studies
and the Samuel Proctor Oral History
Program, are preserving and archiving
Panama Canal materials for inclusion
in the Latin American Collection.
Uniquely qualified to preserve and
provide access to these collections,
the Smathers Libraries have one of
the largest and most respected Latin
American repositories in the world.
With the completion of the transfer of
the Panama Canal Museum collection
by July 2012, over 12,000 objects,
photos, books and archives will be
added to the Smathers Libraries.
The libraries will continue to collect
complementary materials and develop
collaborations with global entities for
the loan and exchange of collections.
The Panama Canal Museum created a
$100,000 endowment to help preserve
this historic collection for future
generations to enjoy and research.
Anyone wishing to contribute to this
collection can do so through four
funds: the Panama Canal Endowment,
the Panama Canal Collection
Processing Fund, the Panama Canal
2014 Events Fund or the Janice G.
Grimison and Edward “Ted” W. Scott
Library Memorial Fund to digitize the
Panama American Newspaper.
She mentioned many student and
faculty opportunities for collaboration,
and Judy and I will pursue these with
Panamanian Ambassador to the
United States, Mario E. Jaramillo,
and the Dean of the UF International
Center, David Sammons.
We also met with Angeles Ramos
Baquero, director of the Museo del
Canal Interoceánico de Panamá, who
was able to arrange a meeting with
Raúl Castro Zachrisson, secretary
general of the National Cultural
Institute (INAC). He is heavily
involved as the representative of one
of five nations who take part in the
UNESCO Memory of the World
Project. UF, through the Digital Library
of the Caribbean (dLOC) and librarian
Chelsea Dinsmore, participates in the
UNESCO project, as well.
We had the honor of meeting with
members of the Autoridad del Canal
de Panamá administration. Ernesto
Holder, manager of communication
and documentation, has a team of
18 people who are recording every
step of the expansion project and we
were promised aerial views and text
materials for our dLOC project.
The next afternoon was spent touring
the huge canal excavation site with
Jan Kop of the Jan de NUL Group
(Belgium). We talked with Michael
Newberry, vice president, MWH
Global, about the potential of placing
student interns from UF in the canal
for a semester-long experience,
mentoring with engineers on the
expansion project.
At the Visitor Center in Miraflores,
we had a private tour and showing
of a movie about the canal. We were
invited to stand on the lock, where
we were told only two presidents
have stood.
Upon returning to Gainesville,
discussions have immediately
ensued concerning the planning
for collaboration. The International
Center, the libraries, the Center for
Latin American Studies, the English
Language Institute, those who are
involved in facilitating Fulbright
activities, Museum Studies, and our
centennial partners (Harn Museum of
Art, Phillips Center for the Performing
Arts and the Florida Museum of
Natural History) will come together to
keep strong the momentum generated
by the Panama Canal Museum
transfer. As the project grows, so does
the University of Florida enthusiasm
for future international partnerships
focused on the Panama Canal.
Dean of University Libraries Judy
Russell and I recently went to Panama
to identify potential speakers and
sponsors for the University of Florida
centennial celebration of the Panama
Canal August 2014-August 2015 (see
sidebar).
At the American Embassy we talked
with Alison Brown, Cultural Attaché.
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Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ana Maria P. De Chiquilani; Executive
Vice President, Engineering and Programs Management Department Jorge
L. Quijano; Dean of University Libraries Judy Russell; Associate Dean,
Technology and Support Services Rachel Schipper; and Administrator/CEO of
the Autoridad del Canal de Panamá Alberto Alemán Zubieta.

SAVE THE DATE
The Panama Canal
Centennial Celebration
August 2014-August 2015
The centennial celebration kicks off
with a special weekend of activities at
the University of Florida on August
15-17, 2014.
Symphony of the Americas
Friday, August 15, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring artistic director, Dr. James
Brooks Bruzzese, international
symphony conductor
Keynote Address (confirmation TBA)
Saturday, August 16, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
University Auditorium
Panama and the Canal
Florida Museum of Natural History
Multiple exhibits including
partnerships for international
research and education
Author Edith Barkowitz Crouch
Sunday, August 17, 2014, 3:00 p.m.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Crouch is the author of The Mola:
Traditional Kuna Textile Art
A mola exhibit will also be on display
Additional exhibits will be in the
libraries and other campus locations
For more information, contact
Rachel Schipper at (352) 273-2505 or
rschipper@ufl.edu.
Accommodations
The Hilton University of Florida
Conference Center at Gainesville, 1714
SW 34th Street, has reserved a block
of rooms at the special rate of $129
per night. The hotel is a comfortable
walking distance to the Cultural Plaza
where many of the events take place.
Reservations will be made available
in August 2013. For more hotel
information please visit
www.uf.hilton.com.
Authors
@
UF
an evening with Norman J. W. Goda
by Rececca Jefferson
Head, Isser and Rae Price Library
of Judaica
Norman J. W. Goda, the Braman
Professor of Holocaust Studies at the
Center for Jewish Studies, kicked off
the inaugural Authors@UF program,
part of the Smathers Libraries Campus
Conversations Series, on February
22 in Smathers Library. The series is
designed to showcase UF authors and
their scholarship. Goda spoke to a
mixed audience of 70 faculty, students,
staff and community members about
his co-authored book, Hitler’s Shadow:
Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence,
and the Cold War. A lengthy question
and answer session followed the talk.
The book Hitler’s Shadow has
been added to the new Authors@
UF Bookshelf (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/
facultybookshelf/all) in the University
of Florida Digital Collections where it
can be read online. An online video is
accessible through the same website.
10th annual ReadFest
The tenth annual ReadFest (formerly
called Read-A-Thon) was held in
front of Library West on April 10-12,
2012. The Edible Book Contest is one
of ReadFest events and is popular
with university students, faculty, staff
and the community. ReadFest is a
celebration of reading that coincides
with National Library Week each
year in April. See additional photos at
www.uflib.ufl.edu/readfest.
Upcoming Authors@UF
Programs
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
6:15 p.m. in the Architecture and
Fine Arts Library
Leela Corman, visiting fellow, will
talk about her graphic novel, Unterzakn.
Corman’s new novel about immigrants
on New York’s Lower East
Side has received great reviews from
Publishers Weekly and Booklist.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
5:30-6:30 p.m. in Smathers Library,
Room 1A
Professor Richard Scher from the
Department of Political Science
will give an informal talk about his
award-winning book, The Politics of
Disenfranchisement. Scher’s talk will
engage the audience in a conversation
about the tradition of restricting
or denying voting rights to large
numbers of Americans and histor-­
ical voting barriers.
Libraries lose good
friend Mary Jean Hanson
The Smathers Libraries lost a good
friend when Mary Jean Hanson
passed away on May 2, 2012. Mary
Jean and her husband Harold
established “The Harold and Mary
Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection
and Endowment Fund” in 2003.
Because of their love of rare books,
the collection was named after them.
Mary Jean taught for ten years each
at Santa Fe Community College
and Auxtin, Texas.
With the Harold and Mary Jean
Hanson Rare Book Endowment
Fund for research, the libraries will
continue Mary Jean and Harold’s
vision to build an outstanding rare
book collection at the George A.
Smathers Libraries at the University
of Florida.
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Dr. Robert Kreamer comic book reference collection
preserves a “tincture of time”
by Jim Liversidge
Popular Culture Collections
Dr. Robert Kreamer’s favorite saying
(heard often by his many patients) was
“All that’s needed now is a tincture of
time.” According to his good friend,
Dr. Sol Davidson, the first Ph.D.
in comics studies from New York
University in 1959, “Dr. Kreamer made
sure to make time in his personal life
for his comics studies. He became a
true comics scholar, analyzing – and
understanding – the intricate genre.”
Professionally, Dr. Robert “Bob”
Kreamer (1931-2011) was an esteemed
osteopathic physician, earning his
D.O. at Still College (now the College
of Osteopathy) in Des Moines, Iowa.
He was proud to be the first osteopathic
physician to be accepted as a
Fellow by the University of Iowa
cardiology program. Kreamer was
inspired and stimulated by the work of
the legendary artist and writer Will
Eisner, specifically by his comic newspaper
insert “The Spirit” and as a result,
his lifetime avocation began in earnest.
In December 2011, the curatorial staff
of the UF Popular Culture Collections
was pleased to accept the donation of
the “Dr. Robert Kreamer Collection”
of comic books and monographs to be
added to the existing holdings in the
“Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection.”
This vintage assortment of various
publications was donated by Dr.
Kreamer’s son, attorney Samuel
Kreamer, the entire Kreamer family
and the estate of Robert Kreamer. It is
a colorful and valuable treasure trove
for researchers in comic strip and
comic book history, consisting of 591
individual items. The Kreamer
Collection will be housed and
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presented as an individual unit under
his name and will include miscellaneous
subject anthologies including:
“Peanuts,” “Mad Magazine,” “B.C.,”
“Tumbleweeds,” “The Wizard of Id,”
“Garfield,” “Pogo,” “Beetle Bailey,”
“Prince Valiant,” “Andy Cap,” “Hagar
the Horrible,” etc.; topical collections
“Great Cartoons of the World,” “100
Years of Newspaper Comics,” “Classic
Cartoons of the 1950s,” etc.; and a rare
assortment of publications from the
prolific pen of the aforementioned
Will Eisner. Eisner was one of the
most important contributors to the
development of the comic book medium
and a leader in the establishment of the
graphic novel as a form of literature.
The Will Eisner “gems” donated to
the Department of Special Collections
include 1972 and 1973 annotated
reproductions of “The Spirit” (1940)
from The Detroit News and The
Newark Star Ledger; hardback editions
of “The Spirit” (Volumes 1-3); and
“New York: The Big City” (inscribed
and signed by Will Eisner to Dr.
Kreamer – “…Appreciation for your
abiding interest….”).
Dr. Kreamer and the Kreamer family
were introduced to the Department of
Special and Area Studies Collections
through their friendship with Sol
and Penny Davidson, whose own
collection donations originally
expanded the scope of the comic book
holdings at the University of Florida.
As a result of that association, the
Dr. Robert Kreamer Collection will
join previous donations from the
Davidsons, Dr. Donald Ault, founder
of the comic studies program in the
UF English Department, and others
as a rich resource of examination and
study for the students of the University
of Florida and the general public.
The Robert Kreamer Collection can be
accessed in the 2nd floor of Smathers
Library in the Department of Special
and Area Studies Collections. For
more information, call (352) 273-2759.
Dean Russell quoted in
New York Times article
Dean Judy Russell was quoted in the
New York Times article “In a Flood
tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of
Books” on March 3, 2012. The article
describes the physical archive of the
Internet Archive, which has fortyfoot
shipping containers stacked two
by two and stuffed with the most
enduring, as well as some of the most
forgettable, books of the era. Every
week, 20,000 new volumes arrive, many
of them donations from libraries and
universities thrilled to unload material
that has no place in the Internet
Age. The Internet Archive hopes to
eventually collect 10 million items, and
it has started taking in films as well.
“A lot of libraries are doing pretty
drastic weeding,” said Judith Russell,
the University of Florida’s dean of
libraries who is sending the archive
duplicate scholarly volumes. “It’s very
much more palatable to us and our
faculty that books are being sent out
to a useful purpose rather than just
recycled.”
Read the complete article at http://
www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/
technology/internet-archivesrepository-collects-thousands-ofbooks.html?r=2&scp=1&sq=Judith%20
Russell&st=cse

Smathers Libraries receive $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Online resource will provide first-time access to hidden St. Augustine treasures
by Tom Caswell
Architecture and Fine Arts Librarian
and Curator of Government House
Research Collections
To prepare for the 450th anniversary in
2015 of the founding of St. Augustine,
the George A. Smathers Libraries
has been awarded $265,000 to build
an online collection of hidden and
fragile resources related to colonial St.
Augustine.
The grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities is
the largest and one of only four NEH
grants in Florida this year. There are
34 nationally.
The “Unearthing
St. Augustine”
grant, led by
project director
Thomas
Caswell and
co-director James
Cusick, will
establish a specialized computer
digitization lab at the Government
House in St. Augustine. This two-year
project will create an interactive digital
collection of 10,000 maps, drawings,
photographs and documents available
freely online.
Partnering with the Smathers Libraries
to realize this project are the City of
St. Augustine departments of Heritage
Tourism and Archaeology, the St.
Augustine Historical Society, the UF
College of Design, Construction and
Planning and the Government House,
which is managed by UF.
The collection will support research
in a broad range of subjects including
Florida and U.S. history, Spanish
colonies, Native Americans, slavery,
exploration, architecture and urban
planning, social and economic
development, missionary work,
military defenses and warfare.
When completed, “Unearthing St.
Augustine” will not only satisfy
the needs of a wide variety of
researchers including historians,
archaeologists, architects and historic
preservationists, but the project will
also help in telling St. Augustine’s
unique “story” on a global scale.
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GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Library West • Smathers Library • Music Library
Marston Science Library • Education Library
Architecture & Fine Arts Library • Allen H.
Neuharth Journalism and Communications Library
Health Science Center Libraries
Judith C. Russell
Dean of University Libraries
Cecilia E. Botero
Associate Dean and Director, Health Science
Center Libraries
Diane Bruxvoort
Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and
Research Services
Samuel T. Huang
Associate Dean for Development and Advancement
Brian W. Keith
Assistant Dean for Human and Financial Resources
Rachel A. Schipper
Associate Dean for Technology and Support Services
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institutions. Questions and comments should be
addressed to the editor, Barbara Hood, (352) 273-2505,
or bhood@ufl.edu.
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Dean’s message
Chapter One
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The 2012-2013 libraries budget
will include a 5% reduction in state
appropriated funds, which is a loss
of $1,387,951 from the current year’s
funding. Unfortunately, this will
necessitate reductions in staffing and
materials. On the materials side, this
is made much more difficult by the
lost purchasing power we experience
annually as the cost of our content,
both print and electronic, goes up an
average of 6% per year. While final
budget decisions have not been made
at the time of this message, we are
committed to continuing to meet the
information needs of the University of
Florida community and maintain the
libraries role as an important campus
hub to the best of our ability.
The libraries will continue to evolve
and transform in order to support
the instructional, research and public
service endeavors of the university.
Providing access to all forms of recorded
knowledge relevant to our primary
constituency is the fundamental
responsibility of the libraries.
A collaboration between the Samuel
P. Harn Museum of Art and the
Digital Library Center created the
online exhibit “Korean Art: Collecting
Treasures” and we are partnering
again with the Harn, the Phillips
Center for the Performing Arts and the
Florida Museum of Natural History
to plan events and exhibits for the
centennial celebration of the opening
of the Panama Canal in 2014-2015,
and promoting the Panama Canal
Collection at the libraries. A number of
colleges and centers involving students
and faculty will also participate in the
celebration. You can read more about
these on the inside pages the newsletter.
We joined the other State University
System (SUS) libraries to implement
UBorrow last August. Students and
faculty at the University of Florida and
the state’s other public universities
now have the ability to borrow
materials from any SUS library with
a single search and without leaving
their home institution. Ease of use
and increased efficiency are not the
only positive aspects of the system.
UBorrow facilitates the cost-effective
use of library funds by decreasing
the need for duplication of materials
purchased across the state universities.
Collaboration with colleagues and
organizations at UF and beyond
is increasingly important and as it
enables us to share resources and set
common goals.
Because of the
reduction in
buying power
and materials,
gifts to the
libraries at this
time become
even more
crucial. The
University of
Florida will
conclude the
Florida Tomorrow
capital campaign
Judith C. Russell
Dean of University
Libraries
on September 30, 2012. The libraries
have raised $18 million of our $20
million goal and we are hoping to raise
the remaining $2 million by the end of
the campaign.
We are prepared to do whatever
is required to continue to deliver
essential services to our users with
whatever resources we receive from the
state allocation and from our friends
and supporters. Although this is a
challenging time for the libraries, with
your support, we will develop creative
strategies and use opportunities to
continue our mission. Your questions
and comments are always welcome, so
please contact me at (352) 273-2505 or
jcrussell@ufl.edu.